Necrotizing (malignant) external otitis

American Family Physician

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 309-312

  Handzel, Ophir ^a   Halperin, Doron ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORIDE; CILASTATIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; GALLIUM 67; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TECHNETIUM 99M; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN SULFATE; WATER;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AUTOMUTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COTTON; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR CARTILAGE; EXTERNAL EAR DISEASE; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NECROTIC EXTERNAL OTITIS; NIGHT; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SECRETION; SKULL SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD; TEMPORAL BONE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; NECROSIS; OTITIS EXTERNA;

EID: 0042847142     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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